Movement game: Clean up the room
Did you know that cleaning the room can both increase exercise for the whole family and help your baby form good habits?
Prepare:
- All baby toys and other household items
- Storage basket.
How to play:
- Place your baby’s toys on the floor.
- Bring your baby into the room with the basket and ask her to pick up the soft toys.
- Baby will pick them up and put them in the basket.
- After soft toys will come plastic items or household items.
- You can leave the plastic dishes and ask your child to pick them up.
Development skills: walking.
Movement game: Move in rows
Help your child develop walking skills with this indoor activity.
Prepare:
- Color ribbon
- Bandage
How to play:
- Use tape to stick the ribbon on the floor in a straight line and then turn it at a 90° angle, creating multiple perpendicular and parallel lines.
- Baby needs to walk along the ribbon, back foot to front heel.
- The game will be better when playing with many children because you can let the children join the train and follow each other.
Development skills: balance the body while walking.
Movement game: Obstacle
This is a complex motor skills activity that your baby can play around the house. This game is suitable for babies who just can’t crawl and can’t walk yet.
Prepare:
- Tunnel
- Soft pillows and blankets
- Tents for children
- Color paper
- Paperboard
How to play:
- Place multiple pillows in a row on the floor to form a path.
- Place a baby tunnel at the end of the path using pillows.
- Cut out some animal shapes from colored paper and stick them on the cardboard.
- Place them on the floor at the end of the tunnel.
- Finally, you put a small tent with many toys that your baby likes in it. Guide your child if he does not know how to play.
Development skills: cow
Movement game: Hobby jumping
This is an extremely fun folk game for children from the past to the present.
Prepare:
- Drawing chalk
How to play:
- Draw tiles on the floor with the number you like.
- Enter numbers or letters in the boxes above.
- The child will stand at the starting position and jump into the box he chooses.
- You can assign a box for your baby to jump.
- Reading letters and numbers will help your baby get used to them more and learn them faster.
Development skills: stand, hopscotch.
Movement game: Jump over the box
Older babies may enjoy walking around and developing their dancing skills.
Prepare:
- 5-6 carton boxes such as shoe boxes.
- Paint and brush.
How to play:
- Help your baby paint on the box to make him more excited.
- Place the paper boxes in a row, the more boxes the better.
- Ask the child to get the toy at the end of the row of boxes by jumping over the box without touching it.
- When you say start, your baby will start dancing and play until the end.
- When he gets the toy, ask him to turn around and jump again to return.
Development skills: stand, go.
Movement game: Stepping on bubbles
Stepping on the bubble wrap when (used for wrapping) with your feet will make your baby very happy.
Prepare:
- Large size bubble sponge or many small pieces
How to play:
- Spread bubble foam on the floor.
- Ask your baby to go barefoot and take one step at a time.
- Bubbles bursting under your baby’s feet can make them feel happy and excited.
- When your baby is bored, you can ask him to jump to make the balloon pop.
Development skills: feeling when moving.
Movement games: Push toys
Pushing toys like a car or stroller is the best way to help your baby practice fine motor skills. This game is suitable for toddlers and toddlers.
Prepare:
- A stroller with a sturdy handle.
How to play:
- Stand in front of your baby to guide him or call him to come over to you. You encourage your baby to use the stroller to move towards you.
- Another person will stand behind the baby to support and encourage him to go forward.
- Your baby can play this game with other toddlers in the house.
Development skills: balance the body when walking, learning to walk with support.
Movement game: Throw the pillow
Prepare:
- 6 – 7 small pillows
- A storage basket.
How to play:
- Spread pillows on the bed, some near the end of the bed, some at the head of the bed.
- Your baby will start at the end of the bed, pick up the pillow and throw it in the basket on the floor next to the bed. Baby can crawl or walk depending on the baby’s will.
- The baby will continue until all the pillows are thrown into the basket.
- Your baby may not hit the basket, but as long as he’s happy, he’s fine.
- You can put the basket somewhere close so that the baby can easily throw the pillow.
Development skills: crawl, sit and throw.
Movement game: Baby ninja
Children will use all their ability to dodge obstacles to avoid escaping the rope and get their things.
Prepare:
- A rope as thick as a rope
- Some household items
How to play:
- Tie a rope between several objects at different distances in the room.
- Add more objects to form a maze of high and low ropes in the room.
- Your baby needs to slip through or climb over the rope without touching the rope to get to her item.
- If the rope is high, the baby will crawl under it.
- If the rope is low, the baby needs to jump or step over.
- The faster the child can get the object, the more points he will get.
Development skills: Combine skills like crawling, squatting, walking and jumping or stepping over objects.
Movement game: Ride a 3 – 4 wheeled bike
Most kids would love to have their own 3-4 wheeler bike. Here’s an activity you can do with your baby’s favorite car.
Prepare:
- Crayons
- Several pieces of cardboard
- Bicycles 3-4 wheels
How to play:
- Let your child draw their own favorite shapes on the cardboard.
- Once your child has finished, place the cards an appropriate distance apart in the yard to create a track.
- Your baby can ride the bike between the tracks, back and forth between the two pieces of cardboard.
- Children can play with many other children for more fun activities.
Development skills: combine move and look.
Movement game: Jump and stop
Dancing is always the best way to exercise the body and also a way to form motor reflexes for children.
Prepare:
- A group of friends for the baby
- Supporter
How to play:
- Turn on the music and let your baby dance the way he wants
- Change many songs. Every time the song changes, the baby needs to change the way he dances.
- Let a support person watch your baby. The child who dances beautifully and with variety wins the game.
Development skills: dance and exercise
Movement game: Blowing soap bubbles
This is an outdoor activity game for kids. Children can both have fun playing with soap bubbles that come out of the swing and practice fine motor skills through this game.
Prepare:
- Soap bubble maker toy
- Round shaking
How to play:
- Let your baby hold the hoop and stand about 1m away from you.
- You stand across from your baby and blow bubbles.
- Baby will come quickly to catch as many bubbles as possible.
- The third person will count the number of bubbles that the baby catches through the hoop.
Development skills: Combines many muscles of the body, combining movement and vision.
Movement game: Musical chair
Musical chair is a game that helps children practice fine motor skills.
Prepare:
- Some small chairs for babies
How to play:
- Place the chair on a zigzag line.
- Baby will run around these chairs to the music
- When the music stops, your baby will sit in his or her nearest seat.
- Children who do not have a chair will be disqualified.
- You can remove a chair after each round to make the game more intense.
- Children and chairs will be eliminated in turn until there is one last person sitting on the chair and that is the winner.
Development skills: combine listening and movement.
Movement game: Catch flying saucers
A flying plastic disc can be a fun game to help children run around very interesting.
Prepare:
- Flying plastic saucer
- A support person
How to play:
- Find a park with lots of soft grass.
- Have your baby stand some distance away from you.
- Throw the flying saucer and encourage your child to catch it.
- The other person will help the baby catch the plate when needed.
Development skills: running, catching objects and combining movements.
Movement game: Roll the ball
Rolling the ball around the house can be more fun for kids especially with toddlers.
Standard bag:
- Sports ball large size
How to play:
- Give your baby the ball and ask him to push it so it rolls around the house.
- Baby can push the ball or let the ball roll naturally.
- The game will end when the child rolls the ball all the rooms in the house.
Development skills: push objects while walking.